Language Use: A Philosophical Investigation into the Basic Notions of Pragmatics

by Pär Segerdahl

Language Use offers a philosophical examination of the basic conceptual framework of pragmatic theory, and contrasts this framework with detailed descriptions of our everyday practices of language use. While the results should be highly relevant to pragmatics, the investigation is not a contribution to pragmatic theory. Drawing on Ludwig Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems, Language Use brings out the relevance of Wittgenstein's methods to fundamental problems in central pragmatic fields of research such as deixis, implicatures, speech acts and presuppositions.

254 pages, Hardcover

First published December 18, 1995

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[Nat · Rating 3 out of 5]

A central text of Scandinavian Contextualism.